Canada Post workers walk the picket line during a rotating strike in Halifax earlier this month. Canadian Press Andrew Vaughan

Royal assent is expected soon, allowing the legislation to go into force at noon Tuesday.

Canada Post says the costs of the wage adjustments, increases in pension pay and other benefits will amount to $550 million by the end of the year, with $130 million already recorded by the end of 2017.

When taking into account its other operations like Purolator, Canada Post says it had a net loss of $36 million in the 13-week period ended September 29, compared with a loss of $13 million for the same period a year earlier.

The arbitrator's decision was a hangover from the last round of contract negotiations between CUPW and Canada Post.

Negotiations have been underway for almost a year, but the dispute escalated more recently when Canadian Union of Postal Workers members launched rotating strikes October 22.

Canada Post anticipates delays for worldwide packages will stretch into March of 2019, due to screening they must undergo by the Canada Border Services Agency. They're more likely to be female, and historically have been paid less, than their urban counterparts.

The previous Conservative government forced an end to a lockout of postal workers during a 2011 dispute by enacting back-to-work legislation, which was later declared by a court to be unconstitutional. "There was a significant, growing economic harm to the country, small businesses were struggling, rural and remote communities were struggling. They were at a complete impasse".

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